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Gizmo the missing dog reunited with Las Vegas family after nearly a decade

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 16:55

Judith Monarrez says she never stopped looking for her chihuahua after he escaped from the backyard in 2015

Judith Monarrez crumpled onto her kitchen floor and wept when the news arrived in an email: Gizmo, her pet dog missing for nine years, had been found alive.

Monarrez was 28 and living with her parents in 2015 when Gizmo, then two years old, slipped past a faulty gate in the backyard of their home in Las Vegas.

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Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in Lewes

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 09:25

Organisers hope dogs will mimic behaviour of wolves that in past would have helped disperse wildflower seeds

Backpack-wearing dogs are being enlisted to “act like wolves” to help rewild an urban nature reserve in the East Sussex town of Lewes.

Before wolves were persecuted to extinction in the UK in about 1760, they were known to roam large areas, typically covering 12 miles (20km) or more each night.

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Paws for thought: how to tell if your dog is happy

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 16:00

Experts explain the signs to look for to read your dog’s mood – and how to help them if they’re feeling low

There are a few questions I find myself pondering again and again: how would I do as a contestant on Survivor? Should I learn Italian?

And is my dog happy?

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Stress in humans can affect how optimistic dogs feel, research suggests

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 15:40

Study got dog owners to either take a maths test or do something relaxing and observed effect on pets’ emotions

The ability of dogs to be able to sniff out humans’ stress levels has been known for some time.

But the relationship between man and his four-legged best friend is a two-way one, and now scientists believe they have discovered that when a dog scents a person in distress, it has a knock-on effect in the behaviour of the animal, most notably, it makes them pessimistic.

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Genetic test could eradicate a type of inherited blindness in dogs

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 14:06

Research inspired by a rescue dog may allow breeders to avoid using canines with progressive retinal atrophy

A mountain rescue dog whose duties ended after her eyesight failed has helped scientists create a test that could eradicate the genetic eye condition in her breed for good.

Shola the English shepherd has an inherited eye disease called progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) that causes the light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye to deteriorate, eventually leading to blindness.

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You’ve heard of nepo babies, but what about nepo dogs? The rise of the Very Important Pooch

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 18 July - 16:00 · 1 minute

From hobnobbing with the Kardashians to brushing shoulders with the royals, celebrities’ dogs are having a busy summer. But what should they do if the high life gets too much?

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At the $600m wedding to end all weddings, of Anant Ambani – the son of Asia’s richest man – and Radhika Merchant, a very good boy was pictured looking bored . The family dog, Happy, perhaps didn’t realise how lucky he was to be a guest at the celebrations in Mumbai last weekend. But even in the presence of Priyanka Chopra, a few Kardashians, a clutch of Bollywood stars, and Tony and Cherie Blair, the golden retriever still gave the impression there were places he would rather be.

Happy is not the only pooch in the spotlight recently. His nonchalant hobnobbing came hot on the paws of the rescue terrier-poodle Brisket, who appeared on the red carpet at the premiere of Twisters in LA last week, the ward of the film’s lead actor, Glen Powell. At the weekend, Sir Pippin of Beanfield – or Pip to his friends – attended the Wimbledon finals. Belonging to actor Glenn Close, the Havanese did well to not chase the tennis ball around Centre Court.

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Pet hates: what’s it like to dislike dogs in a dog-loving country?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 12 July - 15:00

In Australia, there’s a stigma in not sharing in the collective love of canines, say non-dog-lovers. And it affects everything from dating to professional relationships

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Jess is aware her dislike of dogs is limiting her dating prospects. “When I’m scrolling through a dating app, if there’s a dog in the photo, or reference to a dog in a prompt, I quite quickly swipe left,” she says.

That consigns a significant chunk of eligible heterosexual males – and the pooches they are pictured smooching – to the doghouse.

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new one on tinyview :)

comics.movim.eu / TheyCanTalk · Thursday, 11 July - 17:15

excited

new one on tinyview :)

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The $150,000 dog: meet the Svalinn – the gentle beast who can rip out an attacker’s throat

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 9 July - 15:41

They are agile, athletic, even-tempered, intelligent, loving, well-muscled and trained to be lethal bodyguards. The perfect pet, in fact, for a paranoid billionaire

Name: Svalinn dogs.

Age: Created in the “mid-2000s”, so about 20.